News Release

Media Resources for the Five-story Building Test at Englekirk Center

Video Updated May 25, 2012

Fire Testing After Seismic Testing

Fire Testing: Views from Inside Cameras
 

Video Updated May 15, 2012:
Motions from the 7.9 Magnitude Denali Earthquake

Video Updated April 19, 2012
Narrated Piece on the Tests

Video Updated 5:00 PM PT April 17, 2012
Two medical views from the second shake on April 17 are available here. (No more video files will be released today.)

Video Updated 1:15 PM PT April 17, 2012

FTP option 1

Four non-medical views, and a video of a projection screen that includes two medical views, all from the first shake on April 17 are available here.
 

Medical and non-medical views from April 16, 2012 tests are available here.

 

FTP option 2 (the same files as above, just a different FTP site)

Server:  ftp.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu
User:  jsuploads
Password:  (Please contact a member of the communications team for password. Contact info is on the right.)

April 17 files from second shake, connect to FTP address above and then navigate to: UC San Diego Shake Table Camera Views / 4_17_2012_Second Shake

April 17 files from first shake, connect to FTP address above and then navigate to: UC San Diego Shake Table Camera Views / 4_17_2012

 

April 16 files, connect to FTP address above and then navigate to: UC San Diego Shake Table Camera Views / 4_17_2012


External shots from April 17 Shake Tests:
The National Science Foundation has video footage of the exterior of the building from both April 17 shake tests. That footage is available from Dena Headlee at the NSF: dheadlee AT nsf DOT gov  

 

Backround Video Footage:

B-roll of the construction, including full shots of the building, medical equipment, working elevator, fire suppression materials, piping in the ceiling and other parts of the structure, cladding and base isolation system, as well as the shake table mechanism and previous shakes: http://youtu.be/PDoI-1kt8w4

Time lapse of construction - 1: http://youtu.be/hhM2SfAHvfI


Time lapse of the construction - 2: http://youtu.be/mJL6u5CVrOA

 

The above B-roll videos are also available at:

Server:  ftp.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu
User:  jsuploads
Password:
(Please contact a member of the communications team for password. Contact info is on the right.)
folder: UC San Diego Shake Table

 

Photography:

Pictures of the construction, of the building and of students working on the building: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsoe/sets/72157629788043859/

Construction pictures from September 2011: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsoe/sets/72157627722811392/

Press Release from UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering:
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1197

External links:

UCSD-TV documentary: a 12-minute preview of the tests: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=23626

NSF media advisory: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123845

NSF graphic (high resolution): http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/shake_table_h.jpg

Project website: http://bncs.ucsd.edu

Shake table website: http://nees.ucsd.edu

Project fact sheet: http://bncs.ucsd.edu/resources/2012-03-29-NEES-NSF-Highlight.pdf

Media Contacts

Daniel Kane
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-534-3262
dbkane@ucsd.edu

Ioana Patringenaru
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-822-0899
ipatrin@ucsd.edu